How do you decide what to blog about? For many business owners, and perhaps for you, you choose your topic about five minutes before you’re supposed to publish the post. This is a high stress way to blog and it’s probably not doing your business, or your readers, justice.

The Perks of Planning

One of the benefits of planning ahead is that you don’t have to create a last minute blog idea. Instead, you can create a month’s worth of blog ideas and strategically tie them into launches, promotions, and generate new income. Consider sitting down and planning out a month’s worth of blog topics. Perhaps that sounds challenging. So let’s take a look at some ways to help you decide what to blog about.

#1 Consider a Series

A series of blog posts under the same general topic accomplishes several things. The first is that it makes it easy for you to decide what to blog about. If you have a 10 part series or a 20 part series then you instantly have the next 10-20 topics. Additionally, when you create a blog series you’ll pull readers to your blog to read day after day.

#2 Add Structure

Another way to make it easier to decide what to blog about is to create a bit of structure to your blog. For example, on Mondays you might post a “how to